Lionel Trilling

surroundings, Jim suddenly reappears. Jim also ran away (B.S.). Like Huck, Jim ran to free himself. In his critical essay “Huckleberry Finn” Lionel Trilling explains what situation Huck met when he ran away, “He was not a runaway from Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas and his brutal father to a completely individualistic liberty, for in Jim he finds his true father” (Trilling 108). Huck ran away from the stifling natures of Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas, and the abusive, uncaring life with…

In the course of literature of the twentieth century, Hemingway had made a significant contribution and a distinct change especially in the field of fiction .The author’s style which was not accepted at the beginning has become a school in itself. Hemingway’s personal experiences of the hard realities of the age have revolutionized his ideas and attitudes which have been dramatized in his writings. He experienced the violence of war and its resulting chaos and thus, his writings have discussed…

When looking back at the history of psychopathology, many would consider Sigmund Freud, a Viennese neurologist, to be the father of psychoanalysis. Making strides in the field of mental health, Freud became well known in the early 1900’s for his various techniques and theories. It was he who revolutionized methods such as talk therapy, free association, and dream analysis along with theorizing how our sexuality is so strongly connected with our development as children (“Sigmund Freud Biography”…

"The essential point of Nineteen Eighty-Four is just this, the danger of the ultimate and absolute power which mind can develop when it frees itself from conditions, from the bondage of things and history" (Trilling 74-75). As Lionel Trilling exquisitely expresses, 1984 by George Orwell is simply a story of ultimate power and control that spawns from the freedom of the past and reality, which is then manipulated by a higher power. To act upon this desire, the Party must use many different…

Nick narrates Gatsby's pursuit of rekindling an old relationship with Daisy Buchanan and achieving his concept of the ideal life. Nick describes Gatsby during one encounter as, "pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets... standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes." (91) Given this pail, ghostly image of Gatsby, the reader is likely to associate Gatsby with feebleness and tragedy. Gatsby's actions are again depicted as hopeless later in the…

his only book of permanent interest; but it is the only in which his genius is completely realized”. Eliot is saying that in this novel he is a genius but, many readers disagree; the readers think he doesn’t know how to be an author. Hill uses Lionel Trilling, and says “Twain uses the device of Tom Sawyer’s return so that Huck may quite appropriately move away from center-stage and over to the wings where he is more comfortable”. This novel is about Huck, so why should he move to the wings and…

India, deeply exploring the various conflicts arising in a land where the constant clash of cultures was something that was the order of the day and unfortunately not always ended favorably, it is also dealing with a terribly unjust world. As Lionel Trilling said: “A Passage to India is not a radical novel……

Epiphany is a religious term that means “A revelatory manifestation of a divine being or a sudden insight or intuitive understanding” (Webster 384). Lionel Trilling, also, defines Epiphany as literary device that one experienced something unexpected on someone or something, and it changes one’s understanding of someone or something. This unexpected event becomes most important and effective element of the…

“The Hungry Stone” is a short story written by Rabindranath Tagore Which is a translation of the Bengali version “Khudhito Pashan” that was published in his book of short stories “Galpoguchcha”. Rabinndranath(1867-1941) and his many-sided achievements are incredible. He is a writer, a great thinker,an artist,a great musician and an orator of extraordinary power. With his god-gifted genius his leviathan bulk of writing and his universal appeal make him global. He got Nobel Prize for his book…

Weeping that her baby is a girl, Daisy is dependent on men to make her key decisions for her (133, 151): secure in and yet remote from male ownership and ardor, "making only a polite, pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained" (12-13), she radiates a carefully girlish charm of irrationality and whimsy: "Do you want to hear about the butler's nose?" (14). Woman, it appears, is presented only as romance, in the restless world of glamour where there are only the pursued and the pursuing. As…